ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,850, issued on July 8, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Geo-localization using 3D sensor data" was invented by Arvind Srivastav (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Geo-localization is the process by which an entity, such as an autonomous vehicle, can determine its precise location. In an example, a vehicle may include sensors, such as 4D radar sensors, that can capture a point cloud representing an environment within which the vehicle is positioned. An efficient representation of the point cloud is generated, which may be preceded by filtering the point cloud by removing points associated with transient elem...